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North Carolina customers using Time Warner Cable on Sunday faced problems both with its Internet and cable service. As per reports, approximately 20,000 customers were out of cable service on Sunday.

The company revealed the issue at around 6 pm on Sunday on a Twitter feed. “Customers in the Carolinas, we are currently working on resolving an issue causing service problems. No (estimated time of restoration) at this time”, the company wrote in its Tweet.

Amazon, one of the online selling website, has discontinued the sale of hoverboards on its website. The decision has been taken due to the safety issues associated with these self-balancing scooter boards. The Washington-based online store has stopped the sale of hoverboards, especially the ones manufactured by Swagway, a leading producer of the boards. The decision has been taken although the brand has proved its reliability in the past, according to a Digital Trends’ report.

Advertising for the Pokkén Tournament’s Wii U version has begun on the TV. This console version of the Pokémon fighting game will have various features including local multiplayer option. It will also be equipped with palette swaps and a neat box-art design, as well as the Dark Mewtwo’s exclusive character.

Finally, SpaceX managed to successfully land the first stage of Falcon 9 rocket on a landing pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. During a live webcast, a SpaceX commentator announced that Flacon 9 rocket has safely landed on the landing pad. For the first time in history, a rocket has safely landed back on earth after delivering payloads. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 11 satellites into the orbit.

Oculus Rift pre-orders will commence soon and virtual reality fans can enjoy the headsets that have been long-waited. Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus, announced that the company will start taking pre-orders for Oculus Rift headset, early in 2016. Several consumers are anxiously waiting to somehow own one such virtual reality head mounted display headset. The Oculus Rift is likely to be launched in the first quarter of 2016. The anxiety has been created by a number of showcases, trailers, presentations and teasers of these new devices.

Arca Space Corporation has showcased a hoverboard that actually hovers for a few minutes and required six hours of charge afterwards. The company with Romanian roots has developed the hoverboard with 36 electric fans that offer it an amazing thrust to lift a person up to 110 kg.

Arca Space Corporation is already accepting preorders and deliveries will start in April 2016. The hoverboard can keep hovering for six minutes with load up to 80kg and can hover for 3 minutes with load up to 110kg. After every run, the hoverboard requires six hours of charging.

In the computer era, getting system hacked is not a big deal and is likely to happen at any time. Similar case happened today with Steam, the world’s largest PC gaming platform, as a hacking group SkidNP launched a DDoS attack on Steam. It has been reported that some sort of malfunction or breach has hit Steam allowing people access to other people’s user accounts. System hacking of Steam is forcing users to get into other’s personal accounts and steal harmful information like home address, purchase history and even credit card information.

Apple recently announced that it has won a clear victory in a lawsuit that claimed that Apple’s iMessage app caught messages when sent from iDevices to Android devices and blocked those messages from being sent further.

The final ruling on the case was given by a federal judge with a single-sentence order (PDF). Apple previously asked the judge to dismiss the suit after Apple found that two out of the three plaintiffs in the case had gotten rid of their old iPhones after they filed the suit against Apple.

ARCA Space Corporation is ready with the world’s first true hoverboard, which will go on sale from April 2016. The new state of the art technology comes at a price of around $20,000. The hoverboard comes in two variants- an Enhanced Thrust model that supports a rider weight up to 110 kg for around three minutes and a Long Endurance model, which can support a rider with weight up to 80kgs for up to six minutes.

Important information for Verizon and Sprint subscribers, they can file their claims in the $158 million worth ‘cramming’ settlement’ announced in May until December 31. Both the companies had agreed to pay a combined $158 million in order to settle investigations into whether or not the companies have levied massive bills in unauthorized third-party products and services, said the Federal Communications Commission.